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EricEric
edited February 2010 in Buddhism Basics
If to destroy was as difficult as to create would there still be sadness in the world ??????????????????

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  • NirvanaNirvana aka BUBBA   `     `   South Carolina, USA Veteran
    edited February 2010
    If destructive tendencies were as easy to channel for good as creative ones are simple to channel for destruction, would there be any sense in the world?
  • EricEric
    edited February 2010
    THAT is a question I have to think about a bit.:).I`ll get back to you...
  • comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
    edited February 2010
    To destroy is harder than to create. With destruction comes all sorts of things. Feeling, physical damage, lives ruined, and all sorts of other consequences. TO create is to just use your imagination and do it.
  • Quiet_witnessQuiet_witness Veteran
    edited February 2010
    What is destroyed and what is created? Are not the things we understand to be created or destroyed simply just changing and being made manifest differently than before?

    Sadness is not cause by these changes but our misunderstanding and attachment of what occurs is what causes sadness or suffering.
  • TheFoundTheFound
    edited February 2010
    it's not true.
    the destroy something is impossible,
    so is creating.

    you can only change things temporarily...if temporarily even exists....

    We see negative and positive changes,

    but negative and positive to who?! US.

    and our self-centered desires.



    creating is just the coming together,
    destroying is the coming apart,
    but coming together requires something else to come apart...
    the reason you are alive is because of many coming aparts, and coming togethers ...(HAHAHA no pun intended,)..

    so reword your question if possible
    the two are the same,

    why we have sadness in the word is because of self centered delusion, ignorance, greed and anger.
  • comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
    edited February 2010
    I think he meant destroying and creating in the figurative. You guys are picking apart his words.
  • texashermittexashermit
    edited February 2010
    Your question is too generic to answer. Destroy what?

    Life is on a slow path to destruction the moment it is created. Also, I can "create" a cake in minutes that might take me several days to destroy (via ingestion). However, creating the flour to make the cake is more difficult, as is growing the wheat, but to do that I had to "destroy" acres of overgrown land, which might be easy (if I created a tractor) or very difficult (if I only created a plow). Even then, who is the creator of the horse for the plow? Gasoline for the tractor? All things--created and destroyed--are interconnected.

    Are you perhaps talking about constructive actions/thoughts versus destructive ones in general? Even if so, I am still not sure why one is easier or more difficult than the other. Is "good" kamma more difficult than so-called "bad" kamma? Maybe on the front end one might argue, but the consequences of creating the latter are a LOT more difficult, wouldn't you agree? If destruction is conjured in mind, isn't that something we bring into existence (create? brainstorm? Things "formed" in the mind?)

    It is not that I disagree with you at all here friend, I just do not understand the premise of your question at all...it just does not make any sense to me. :-)
  • Quiet_witnessQuiet_witness Veteran
    edited February 2010
    I think I understood what he was refering to but I was pointing out that nothing is created or destroyed. By thinking we have the power to create or destroy we completely misunderstand a natural law that nothing is created or destroyed just changed.
  • jinzangjinzang Veteran
    edited February 2010
    Here Shariputra, all dharmas are marked by emptiness. They are not created or destroyed, not defiled or undefiled, not deficient or complete.
  • porticoportico
    edited February 2010
    It's Monday again. What can I say?
  • Love-N-PeaceLove-N-Peace Veteran
    edited February 2010
    What I think Eric means is this (tell me if I'm incorrect Eric). Example: we all want a life of no suffering. As Buddhists our aim is to end suffering. We aim to CREATE love and compassion for our fellow sentient beings. We aim to CREATE a life of peace, and no suffering, DESTROY suffering if you like. But what's easier? Some people want a baby and have to try a few times and then they have miscarriges. It's hard, and all round difficult for your body as not everything always goes right. The sperm has to reach the egg, and that's only the begining. It's difficult to CREATE a life. It's easy to DESTROY. I could right now pick up my rabbits and break there necks, I could step on an ant, I could drop a toasted on my fishtank. The thing is it IS harder to CREATE than to destroy. Going to my tropical fish I'd find it very difficult to breed some of the egg-laying species without a good quality spare aquarium or two. It's easy-peasy to DESTROY something. Some people wait ages to have their crush return the love, to CREATE a relationship. It takes several well-planned actions to CREATE something wholesome. But only a little mistake to DESTROY it :( That's life. Hope I helped,
    Love & Peace
    Jellybean
  • KikujiroKikujiro
    edited February 2010
    In a convensional sense, I don't see how creation universally takes more energy than destruction. Something's might take more effort than others, but also very much depends on the who, why and many, many other factors.

    Besides the destruction of one "thing" is often the creation of another.
  • comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
    edited February 2010
    Yes when you destroy something you create a mess. Good point.
  • Love-N-PeaceLove-N-Peace Veteran
    edited February 2010
    You're right there. I think we should just let each thing happen, let life carry out it's plans and while it's busy following it's plans just enjoy the ride... em LOL

    Love & Peace
    Jellybean
  • comicallyinsanecomicallyinsane Veteran
    edited February 2010
    LoveNPeace wrote: »
    You're right there. I think we should just let each thing happen, let life carry out it's plans and while it's busy following it's plans just enjoy the ride... em LOL

    Love & Peace
    Jellybean


    Yeah just like orgies. Good Times.
  • Love-N-PeaceLove-N-Peace Veteran
    edited February 2010
    :rolleyesc
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